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...author and a professor of psychology at the University of Utah, whose previous research found that drivers on cell phones were slower to react and five times more likely to have an accident than other motorists. "We are learning that there is something important about the production of speech and the role linguistics play in multitasking...
...this argument relies on a shallow and misguided interpretation of Obama’s hope. As he said in his victory speech after the Iowa caucuses, “Hope is not blind optimism…Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” This is the transformative power of Obama’s candidacy: He offers a vision of change more ambitious than any candidate...
...described those split between the two as "a small sliver of the universe," the campaign is paying attention to it, as "everybody is very conscious of what happened to Bill Bradley in 2000" - when independents abandoned the moderate Democrat and helped give McCain a victory. Amy Pellerin, 38, a speech pathologist from Boscawen, N.H., was one of them. In 2004, she liked McCain so much that she wrote his name in. But this year, Obama attracts her more. "It sounds silly but I like the hopefulness and the genuine quality to his talking, she says. "I don't know...
...victory speech, Huckabee came close to gloating about his victory over the doubters, who have said for months that he could not win with such an ill-funded operation. "People really are more important than the purse, and what a great lesson for America to learn," he told the cheering crowd. "Tonight I hope we will forever change how Americans look at their political system...
Romney echoed that sentiment in his concession speech. During his campaign, he said, voters complained to him, "Washington is broken? and Iowa said that tonight. On the Democratic side, we have a new face, Barack Obama. And on our side, new contenders...